My fadres graunt if that I so withstode,

Sin she is chaunged for the tounes goode.

80. I have eek thought, so it were hir assent,

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To aske hir at my fader, of his grace;

[Than thenke I], this were hir accusement,

Sin wel I woot I may hir not purchace.

For sin my fader, in so heigh a place

As parlement, hath hir eschaunge enseled,

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